The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-29
A Ca.holle no mperance conven.len.


A Catholic TIE importance Convention.
The seventeenth annual Convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence, Union of
New Jersey was held on Tuesday last in
Odd Fellows Hall, Hoboken. Tie exer-
cises of the day were fifty inaugurated by
the celebration of solemn High Mass 10 the
Church of Our Lady of Grace. After the
meeting had been called to order in Odd
Fellows Hall, the President, Rev. P. Cor
rigan, read an able and witty address Mr..
Kerr, of Paterson, was appointed Secretary
of the union until the return of Rev.
Father McKeever from Europe, Mr.. P
Moran and Mr.. Clynes were appointed as.
sistant secretaries The roll of societies
was then called and 7S delegates respond
ed. Committees on credentials, resolutions,
and finance were appointed and recess
was taken for dinner, which was served in
the lower hall. Among the reverend clergy
present during the day were noticed Rev
Fathers Corrigan, Hennessy, McQ aaid, No
Nulty, Monsignors Seton and De Concilio,
DIR. Smith, Fathers Corr, Ter Woert,
O'Connor, Marzetti, BoylaD, Connolly,
I lyuu, NdSShlUg AcAul, uAOETlSs aURdD,
Gillen and several others At 2 D. m. re-
ports of committees were called for and
Rev P. Hennessy, Chairman of the Con-
mittee on Resolutions, read the following
preamble and resolutions on temperance,
amid great applause:
WHEREAS, We recognize in the power 10 which
we are giving bsttle-the power of King Alcohol
the serious and deadly enemy of our people and
country, which is rapidly sapping the strength Of
aVnd n A4ohn
graves; which works destruction of domestic peace
and of national prosperity; which counts its
victims BY tens OF thousands, sparinR ne age nor
sex nor condition; which is the fruitful mother of
lawlessness and crime, and which is the most
potent agent in filling the prisons with the youth
of the land and in drawing off Thousands from the
prac ice of religion; therefore. be 1t
Resolved, That we, banded together in this holy
crusade. our most strenuous endeavors in the
cause of temperance to counterfeit the dreadful re-
suits of indulgence In drink, and that we begin
work at home in order to bring association and
aims to the notice of fellow citizens determin
ing. after the example of our brethren in Boston,
to tnaugurate grand series of temperance dis
courses under the patronage and with the cooper
alton of the Right Rev Bishops and of the reverend
clergy, to be begun at Jersey City and thence to
extend throughout the whole State of New Jersey
that thus we ay strive TO fnnpart to all the untold
blessings Of temperance.
Second-That as the legislators we select are to
be The mouthpieees of the people and are 10 have
no object In view but the welfare of the common.
wealth, we call upon them in the name OF public
decsncy and order to pass stringent enactments
against the evil practices following:
(a) The selling of liquor to minors whereby the
innocent child of ten learns the sweetness OF in
diligence without counting its after bitterness; by
which devilish trufhc our boys and girls become
initiated in the ways of intemperance and vicious
ness, to grow in after days into nation of
drunkards.
(bI The connection of the grogshop with the
grocery. thus affording an easy inducement to
weak minded women to become tipplefs; where
the mother of the family. while purchasing the
necessary food for the husband and children, is
tempted TO violate the sanctity of her motherhood
BY ind alging in drink.
icy Dissertation of the Lords day. which was set
apart for the worship Of our Maker and for the in
nocent amusement and necessary recreation of the
workingman and his family, but which, by the
lamentable negligence of those whose duty it is to
enforce the laws, has degenerated into day of
r1oting and drunkenness, since liquor saloons are
allowed to haunt their attractions the very faces
of the guardians of the public peace and since vice
has become so common as to be standing disgrace
to our cities, and surely sufficient to bring down
upon our land the maledietion of Heaven
Th;rd-That we recognize in the saloon the most
potent cause of public crime and disorder. the
nursery of outrages and MURDER the school where
proficiency is to be attained in gambling and dis
honesty. the home of blasphemy and obscenity and
we resolve hereby to recommend the adoption of
high license tariff which will drive out OF exist
ence the low dramshops with their accompani.
ments Of idle, shiftless hangers-on, the saloons
which are blots upon the maps of our cities and the
standing contradictions to the refinement and
civilization Of the age.
Adopted enthusiastically.
Resolutions we've also read by Father
Kennedy, heartily endorsing the Irish
National movement and highly eulogizlng
the Irish leaders by name as we'll as Arch
bishop Walsh, of Dublin, Crooke, of Cashel,
and Bishop Nulty, of Meath. Father
Hennessy also read resolution strongly
approving of the action of Cardinal Gibbons
in defending the Knights of Labor and
warmly eulogizing the Cardinal for such
action. This matter gave rise.to the hottest
and longest debate of the day. Rev. p
Corrigan was unanimously reelected to the
position of President of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union. Rev. p. Corr, of Hack
ensack, and Rev. Maddeus Hogan, of
Trenton. were elected Vice Presidents; Mr.
Moran and Mr.. Kerr Secretaries and Mr..
T. McCabe, Of jersey City, City Treasurer.
Il was decided to hold the next convention
in Plaintield. The admission fee was re-
duced from ten dollars to five.
Glenn Sxwaen